Research Digest, December 2025: TxDOT Video Summary Reports

The December 2025 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download from the CTR Library’s website.
This month’s digest is a special issue. It provides abstracts for 16 video summary reports from the research program sponsored by TxDOT’s Research and Technology Implementation Division (RTI).
The research projects represented here cover a wide range of topics. This issue includes video summaries on the evaluation of geogrids for asphalt pavement construction, improving data quality for automated pavement distress data collection, re-examining minimum reinforcement requirements for shear design, and improving traffic signal planning, design, and management with big-data-enhanced automated traffic signal performance metrics. Links to online videos for each summary report are provided in the digest.
To stay up-to-date on all the latest research published through different transportation programs, you can visit the library’s online catalog. We provide links to online full-text of reports in our catalog when publishers make that content available for free.
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